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Recovery Act - Process Intensification by Enhanced Performance of Multi-Effect Evaporators and Crystallizers
Award last edited on: 8/29/2017

Sponsored Program
SBIR
Awarding Agency
DOE
Total Award Amount
$141,476
Award Phase
1
Solicitation Topic Code
10 a
Principal Investigator
Chandrakant B Panchal

Company Information

E3Tec Service LLC (AKA: E3tecservice Llc ~ E3tec)

11865 Tall Timber Drive
Clarksville, MD 21029
   (443) 812-5930
   N/A
   www.e3-tec.com
Location: Multiple
Congr. District: 03
County: Howard

Phase I

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Phase I year
2010
Phase I Amount
$141,476
Currently enhanced tubes are not used in MEE evaporators and crystallizers and monitoring-based fouling mitigation is not practiced. Thermal separation processes are capital intensive and the industry is unlikely to replace the existing process equipment in working conditions just for energy savings. It was concluded in the ITP Sponsored AIChE Panel on Separations that in 2020 and beyond the industry will be using the process equipment installed in 2000 and before. Therefore, the developments to improve the energy efficiency should focus on retrofitting multi-effect evaporators and crystallizers with enhanced tubes and industry-wide application of mechanical vapor recompression (MVR) heat pumps. This proposal follows a similar path forward for multi-effect evaporation and crystallization process units. This transformational change in design of evaporators and crystallizers will have tangible energy efficiency improvements to achieve the DOE

Phase II

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Phase II Amount
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